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Harriet Myers — A Profound Disappointment
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Oct 03, 2005 01:49pm |
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| News Date | Monday, October 3, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The cynical among us may be forgiven for wondering whether we still do live in a republic, for the simple pulverzing fact is that the great bulk of the really vexing questions that confront this nation — those questions that drive right to the heart of who we are as a people — are in our day answered by the United States Supreme Court. That the Supreme Court has no constitutional authority to answer many of these questions is immaterial. The Court has become our Legislator. The inevitable consequence of this development, whatever one may think of it, is that no American patriot can regard the nomination of a new Justice with indifference.
There is profound disappointment today on the right. Harriet Miers was rumored as the next pick for the Supreme Court, but many people laughed off the suggestion. Some of those who were laughing are now crying. Still others are abandoning hope. Said one correspondent, “This Presidency is adrift.” From what we have seen lately, we tend to agree.
For all we know, and we know very little, Harriet Miers is the second coming of Antonin Scalia. But, we do not know. What we know is encouraging to the extent that she might be right on life issues. She did actively oppose the American Bar Association’s position. Assuming that Miers is a conservative jurist, we still cannot, at this time, accept or endorse this nomination. |
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